Sunday 18th of June 2006

House for Sale

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A , posted by Anthony in the early afternoon.

This will be short. I was at Ian’s bachelor party yesterday and it was extensive, so I’m not really thinking in joined up sentences. We started out at a firing range, where we each took .22 calibre rifles and fired about a hundred bullets into some defenceless pieces of paper. We sure showed them. This was pretty fun, although I was a little taken aback by the culture of the firing range. They seemed like nice guys, but there were some very interesting conversations taking place and many informative pamphlets lying about. I’m about to go and invest in some Liberty Dollars.

After that we had a meal, then went to a bar, and then went to other places that are not appropriate for discussion on a family blog. All in all it was a very satisfactory bachelor party. The wedding is next weekend. I’m pretty sure my suit still fits, although I’ll have to get it drycleaned.

Other news comes from Dublin. My parents have put their house on the market. This is where I lived from the ages of 11 to 25 or 26 (I can’t quite remember when I moved out). Yes, this €2.5 Million house is the same one my Dad referred to in a comment as a dismal, windswept hovel. A part of this move is the selling of my Smart Car. Apparently somebody has offered €500 for it, so if you want to make a better offer let me know. It doesn’t exactly run any more, but I’m sure it would be useful for something.

Just one more thing, then I’m going to eat something and veg out foir the rest of the day. Could I please draw everybody’s attention to the very fine and useful www.snopes.com? It’s a site dedicated to debunking (or confirming) urban myths through research. It has a very useful section that is kept extremely up to date dealing with email hoaxes. I want to mention this because it sems like well meaning people have been forwarding me a lot of useless petitions and false missing child reports recently. I always check them on Snopes using the handy search function, and they always come up as out of date or false or otherwise a waste of time.

Please, the next time you’re about to forward that petition to your entire address book, stop and check Snopes first. You are probably just creating spam. If you find an article on Snopes about the email you’ve received, why not send the link back to the person who sent you the email kindly suggesting that they might like to check Snopes in future, rather than killing email? Together we can stop me having to wade through these things.

Thank you.


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